A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
By Melvin Patrick Ely
The boundaries between the enslaved and the free were blurry but never invisible.
We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are June’s winners.
An Interview with John A. Jenkins
By Bert Brandenburg
The journalist talks Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the summer when everything came to a head.
A propulsive account of the 19th-century Midwestern inferno.
Starter Villain
By John Scalzi
Charlie struggles to be a bad guy. Maybe his cat can tell him what to do.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
We came, we read, we gushed. Here’s a recap of the titles that left us especially warm and swoony last month.
Is atoning for our country’s past sins even possible?
We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are September’s winners.
Night Watch: A Novel
By Jayne Anne Phillips
An exquisitely rendered tale set in turbulent antebellum West Virginia.
…one we shouldn’t keep our kids from taking.
